Ukrainian drama translated into 13 languages

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Translated to: English
“Be a Man!” is a story about the search for masculinity, the understanding of femininity, and the right to be oneself in...
21 M, 5 F
16841 words / 61 pages
Translated to: English
Lesya is a woman in her early thirties whose life revolves around her husband, housework, and her friendship with Varya...
10 M, 1 F
6950 words / 22 pages
Translated to: English
Have you ever been in love? Well, Lukyana might be. Sometimes. Rather than face up to her husband-to-be she decides to...
3 M, 2 F
7957 words / 32 pages

Themes

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Translator: John Farndon
Translated to: English
A woman in dark glasses is selling orphaned kittens – a white, a gray and a black one – all what is left of her house...
Donbas farewell monologue, 1 Act
1 F
11930 words / 22 pages
Translator: John Farndon
Translated to: English
A bunch of tiny mice goes out to save their Mommy Mouse and their trip is full of adventures. Contemporary story for...
Adventures, 11 Acts
3 M, 3 F, 3 K
4068 words / 21 pages
Translator: John Freedman
Translated to: English
After the dam explosion, a woman remains on the roof of her house, surrounded by water, debris, and bodies. In the...
Monologue, monodrama, 1 Act1 F
836 words / 2 pages
Translator: Anna Halas
Translated to: English
Georgii, a single father burdened by a web of lies, endeavors to escape his tangled deceit by recording a candid video...
Drama
1 M
12 pages
 
 
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About the project

Digital library of the Ukrainian drama translations serves to promote the national dramaturgy worldwide, the successful communication between the contemporary Ukrainian authors and theatres around the world, and to foster new creative partnerships.

Convenient search engine will help you find plays of the Ukrainian playwrights translated into the language of your choice, and generate the search by genre, period of creation, subject, text size, number of characters, etc.

Each text in the library has an ID card, a synopsis and information about the author and the translator in English.

Here you will be able to read big fragments but the entire text for reading, commercial or non-commercial use, can be obtained from the copyright holders whose contacts can be found on the first page of the play and in the authors’ profiles. 

The Library is founded by the Ukrainian Institute in partnership with Worldwide Readings Project and Birkbeck Center for Contemporary Theater. It is based on the global initiative funds of the Worldwide Readings Project and the Ukrainian Institute program Transmission.ua: drama on the move.

Website is created with the financial support of the International Relief Fund of the Federal Foreign Office and Goethe-Institut Ukraine within framework of the “Theatrical Windows. Work in Progress” – a project implemented by the NGO “Theatre na Zhukah”. Coordinating partner – platform UkrDramaHub.

Open structure promotes continuous renewal of the Library’s funds. Ukrainian playwrights are welcome to submit the translations of their plays via this form

Prior to publishing on the Website, quality of translations will be verified by the Expert Council: Lydia Nagel (German), Elli Salo (Finnish, Swedish, Slovak), Molly Flynn (English), Miloslav Juráni (Slovak), Iulia Popovici (Romanian) and Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun (Polish).